Technical Knowledge: Financial Industry (Summary)

[Jeff Hanvey <jeff -at- jewahe -dot- net>]

Here is what I was told in order to get an understanding of the financial industry:

1. Read the Wall St. Journal

2. Obtain and use the excellent financial terminology dictionary 
published by the Wall Street Journal

3. Read Money, Forbes, Fortune, etc.

4. Hang out with the people

5. Get Barron's business terms dictionary and/or 
Barron's Dictionary of Financial and Investment Terms

6. Get Schaum's Outlines at a college or other bookstore. There's probably one on financial accounting

7. Get the  various certification materials with texts and references available through industry groups

8. Look for college textbooks on the subject

9. Read a book called "The Bankers." While not a technical or reference book, it gives me a nice feel for how banks and transaction processing systems work. It might be a little outdated now.

10. Check out the American Bankers Association at www.aba.com to see
about purchasing their Glossary of Fiduciary Terms

11. Web sites

	http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/so00318e.html
	http://www.finance-glossary.com/pages/home.htm
	http://www.investorwords.com (there is a Banking section, among others). 
	http://www.investopedia.com/dictionary/ 
	http://www.johnmolson.concordia.ca/services/resources.htm (Finance Journals)
	http://lii.org/search?query="Banks+and+banking";searchtype=subject (Librarian's Index search results)
        http://www.onelook.com (browse the dictionaries under the business category)

Thanks to Amy Smith, Justin Baker, Michael Collier, Sarah Lathrop, Matther Horn, Ann Howell, Connie Giordano, Jennifer Lambert, Mike MacLean, and Rosemary Horner

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Jeff Hanvey: http://www.jewahe.net

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